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Opioid Abatement Council approves $25 million in Cycle 2 community grants, splits awards across six strategies
Summary
The Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council on June 24 approved allocations from a $25 million Cycle 2 community grant round across six strategic areas after debate over package options, regional equity and requests that exceeded grantees’ operating budgets.
The Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council approved awards today from its Cycle 2 community grant round, allocating $25,000,000 in first-year funding across six strategies including treatment, recovery support and prevention.
Council members considered multiple “packages” of applicants for each strategy and voted to approve the set of awards the council office presented after making several last-minute swaps to respond to concerns about regional equity and applicants that requested funding larger than their reported annual operating budgets.
The council’s Executive Director Mary Shelton and grants staff produced spreadsheets showing which applications scored above the council’s pass threshold (66.67) and offered pre-made “packages” that match the strategy-level targets the council previously set: education and training, harm reduction, primary prevention, recovery support, treatment and research. Shelton told the council the office received 294 Cycle 2 applications…
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